One of the things I'd like to learn more about at the AMC is the reason behind Hip Hop's domination of musical genres in the world's poorer and more neglected neighborhoods.
- How come artists from rural Africa to inner-city Cleveland to Palestine to Habana Vieja choose Hip Hop as their weapon of choice to speak out?
- What is it about forms like Rap and Hip Hop that make them more attractive as an outlet for the disenchantment, frustration and rebellion that come with living under oppression and poverty, when most mainstream artists today sing about expensive cars and jewelry?
- How did this niche of inner-city African American and Latino youth in 1970s New York City create a movement that has spread to Barrios the world over?
- What makes Hip Hop more accessible to this audience than, say rock or emo (gasp!
) or alternative music?
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not entirely true
It is known that mostly rich white surburban kids listen to rap just as much if not more than non-white kids. A lot has to do with the culture. Its cool to talk about women, money, etc., and it always has, but hip hop takes it to another level and u plug athelets like Allen Iverson or Tracy McGrady to hip hop and boom, it entices even the most white, children of the most conservative peeps.
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um
one word: marketing.
That's not to say hip-hop as an art form and a form of music and a form of expression and as a culture is bankrupt. It's just to say that that is why it's spread so far so fast.
Underpinnings that allowed that to happen are the real interesting and cool part (way before the speculative econo-sociology):
- roots in jazz and funk and african rhythms and such. it has soul. it's alive.
- like futebol, it's a pick-up sport. anyone with some words and some way to produce a beat can do some form of hip-hop. it's social and it is reactive to it's environment.
then you get into the other stuff: it's urban lower-class expeirence which is shared by many many people all over the world, etc.
and of course... it has morphed and continues to. it is alive. it is a culture. (one could argue it is the global folk culture.)
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Hrm....
That's a pretty clear-cut way of putting it.
And yeah, from what I can tell independent hip hop is associated with poverty, but what about the mainstream stuff? They sing about their riches, not about poverty.
And lots of white artists in the 70s focused on poverty, resistance and oppression (CCR, Neil Young...). They spoke directly to the struggles that people were faced with at the time.
Forgive my cluelessness, I've just never really given this much thought before.
Emo music is the music of
Emo music is the music of rich white nerd kids. Likewise indie rock, except all those nerd kids are also music journalists. Rock is the music of the white lower and middle class.
Since hip-hop is generally associated with poverty and the streets, and white people tend to be richer than non-whites in the Americas, so the music that most urban non-white youth listen to and associate with most is hip-hop. It speaks to the struggles that people have to deal with.
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